The Daily PakistanPolitics Oct16-31, 2016

• Oct16-2016--The newly appointed mqm-london interim coordination committee held a press briefing at the Rangers controlled Karachi Press Club...consisting mostly of unknowns they tried to suggest that altaf hussain was the only bani of the mqm...however apart from farook sattar and two others who were assassinated by supposedly altaf gangsters there were four bani arkaan of the initial APMSO which was the predecessor of the mqm...a professor hasan arif is the apparent leader of the mqm london and future elections in karachi can certainly be more democratic as there was little or no opposition for the altaf hussain led mqm barring ethnic opposition consisting generally of pukhtuns and the sindhi PPP...the interim coordination committee tried to suggest that there was only one mqm but the PSP and the mqm pakistan are now almost realities...what happened in a recent by election could be a harbinger which will not allow the mqm members to resign and seek reelection due to the uncertain nature of support amongst the mohajirs...obviously with three ethnic mohajir groups there will be some sort of a contest on the mohajir dominated seats...The mqm london committee has quickly tried to seize the upper hand after the foolish british police released their seized funds...it is yet tobe seen whether the mqm can come together or exist in two or three groups...
  
• Oct16-2016--after half a century of failures in making the indians talk on kashmir Nawaz Sharif touring a shiite outpost azerbaijan still wants to hold talks with the indians...the pakistanis seem to have the shiite group and their policies are aligned to iran, syria, iraq, lebanon and azerbaijan...while they can get along with the russians and iranians they are really pakistan's historical allies...The russians are india's militaries suppliers and the iranians/syrians umbrella...they have little in common with pakistan which has been allied traditionally with the US and saudi groups...with the us trying to woo india and iran and distancing itself from pakistan..it is stuck in the middle...and pakistan is at best a parasite which is now not in the good books of anyone...maybe the pakistanis should develop their own positions and learn to stand on their own two feet...becoming hangers on in another camp when one is distancing itself from its own group does not seem tobe good policy
• Oct16-2016--337 lawmakers suspended for not filling assets declarations